Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Mark Dixon
Course Director
Dr Mark Dixon achieved a BSc in Computing (1994) followed by a PhD in Computer Science (1997). His employment history includes working as a software engineer for Dabs Press (now Dabs.com); an embedded software engineer at Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS - London); a real-time systems software engineer at Live Devices (York); and as a consultant in software engineering and model based development. Mark is responsible for delivery of several postgraduate computing courses; he also undertakes PhD supervision and various research activities.
While working at Leeds Beckett University Mark developed a CASE tool to be used for teaching across all levels of the computing related courses. This software is also used in many other universities and colleges around the world.
Mark has almost 30 years of experience in software development across a range of architectures and platforms, including the 6502, 68000, ARM, and dsPIC processors. He has also built commercial software using Assembly language, C, C++, Java and Objective C. Mark also has a vast amount of experience in software modelling, mainly using the Unified Modelling Language and is currently working on a new development language and platform.
Current Teaching
Mark currently teaches on the undergraduate and post-graduate Computing related courses. Modules delivered include:
- Software Development
- Software Engineering
- Advanced Software Engineering (Masters)
- Software and Systems (Masters)
Research Interests
Current research interests include software engineering, model based development and embedded systems development.
Mark has gained funding to work on two Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), with organisations based in Newcastle and Leeds.
Other research also involves working with the NHS Trust to produce a mobile application that can be used with patients in therapy. This impacts both the ability of clinicians to better support their patients, while also allowing patients to record and monitor their own progress on a more regular basis.
Selected Outputs
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Dixon MB (2012) A Graphical Approach to the Development of Deployment Agnostic Systems.
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Dixon SJ; Dixon MB; Elliott J; Guest E; Mullier DJ (2011) DScentTrail: A new way of viewing deception.
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Dixon SJ; Dixon MB; Elliott J; Guest E; Mullier DJ (2011) A neural network for counter-terrorism.
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Sharpe S; Dixon MB; Harrison G (2010) A MAD approach to Java Concepts.
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Asif N; Dixon MB; Finlay J; Coxhead JF (2002) Recover the Design Artifacts.
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Mullier DJ; Dixon MB (2000) Authoring Educational Hypermedia Using a Semantic Network.
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Dixon MB; Coxhead JF; Dodman EA (1999) Meta-Modelling Requirements for the Support of Automated Quality Assessment within CASE Tools.
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Dixon MB; Coxhead JF; Dodman EA (1996) The Automatic Assessment & Teaching of Software Development Work.
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Dixon MB; Coxhead J F; Dodman EA (1996) Meta-CASE and Audit : Automated Generic Quality Assessment.
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Dixon MB; Coxhead JF; Dodman EA (1995) The Enhancement of CASE to Improve Software Quality.
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Dixon MB; Coxhead JF; Dodman EA (1994) Computer Based Evaluation : Myths, Methods and Morality.
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Akerele O; Ramachandran M; Dixon MB (2014) Evaluating the Impact of Critical Factors in Agile Continuous Delivery Process: A System Dynamics Approach. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 5 (3), pp. 133-143 (11).
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Dixon MB (2013) A Graphical Based Approach to the Conceptual Modeling, Validation and Generation of XML Schema Definitions. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, 8 (1), pp. 1-22.
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Dixon SJ; Dixon M; Halpin E; Pattinson C (2013) A Modelling Based Notation for the Automated Extraction and Analysis of Social Networking Data. , pp. 340-344.
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Dixon MB (2012) Generating Embedded Systems Software using a Component Based Development Approach. GSTF Journal of Computing, 2 (3), pp. 65-70.
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Dixon MB (2011) Supporting Component Oriented Development with Reusable Autonomous Classes. ARPN Journal of Systems and Software, 1 (5), pp. 182-193.
http://scientific-journals.org/journalofsystemsandsoftware/archive/vol1no5/vol1no5_4.pdf
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Dixon MB (2011) Defining Virtual Views of Electronic Resources using Declarative Queries. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 29 (5),
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Dixon M (2004) A single CASE environment for teaching and learning. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 36 (3), pp. 271-271.
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Dixon S; Guest E; Dixon MB; Elliot J; Mullier D (2011) DScent Final Report [Online]. Leeds Metropolitan University.
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Tindell K; Dixon MB (2008) 'Scalios' A scalable embedded Real-Time Operating System for resource-constrained embedded systems [Computer Software].
Available from: https://github.com/jkenergy/scalios
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Dixon MB (2002) QSEE SuperLite [Computer Software].
Available from: http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/qsee/
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Dixon MB (1990) Starch [Computer Software].
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Dixon MB (1997) An automated approach to the measurement and evaluation of software quality during Development. [PhD Thesis]. Leeds Metropolitan University.
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Akerele O; Ramachandran M; Dixon MB (2013) Testing in the Cloud: Strategies, Risks and Benefits. In: Mahmood Z; Saeed S ed. Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm. London: Springer, pp. 165-188.